"AP INTERVIEW: Celebrated Turkish novelist recounts struggle with ultranationalists
The Associated Press
Published: September 7, 2006
ISTANBUL, Turkey For best-selling Turkish author Elif Shafak, September promises to be a month of joy and tribulation.
Nine-months pregnant, the University of Arizona literature professor is set to give birth to her first child. Another important date looms: the start of her trial on charges of "insulting Turkishness" in her novel that deals with the waning years of the Ottoman Empire."
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